Spun-yarn from old Nantucket, consisting mainly of extracts from books now out of print, with a few additions (1914)
Author: Wyer, Henry Sherman, 1847-1920, ed; Hart, Joseph C., d. 1855
Volume: 2
Subject: Nantucket (Mass.)
Publisher: Nantucket, The Inquirer and Mirror Press
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 9173288
Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation
Book contributor: The Library of Congress
Collection: library_of_congress; americana
Scanfactors: 61
Full catalog record: MARCXML
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The Mother Isle, by H.S. Wyer.-From "Miriam Coffin, or The whale fisherman," by J.C. Hart.-From "Quaint Nantucket" by W.R. Bliss.-An account of the Nantucket Indians, by Z. Macy.-From Tristram and his grandchildren, by Harriet Warren.-The first tea party (an idyl from Nantucket)--There she blows! or Whales we caught by W.H. Macy.-Seagirt Nantucket, by H.S. Wyer.-Scraps.-Verse
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